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...Asian Americans] clearly get a big whack--nota tip--in the direction against them," saidDershowitz. "Harvard wants a student body thatposesses a certain racial balance...
...line of the 1988 campaign, Bush last week practically invited Congress to start pushing, with a hint that his lips might now frame something other than a flat no. The President asked congressional leaders to join Administration officials in a "summit" meeting to plan, at long last, a real whack at the runaway budget deficit. His spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Bush wanted the talks to start with "no preconditions" and proceed "unfettered with conclusions about positions taken in the past." Meaning, everyone assumed, that a tax increase could at least be seriously discussed, and Bush just might let himself...
...William Cohen of Maine proposed cutting the U.S. defense budget ($291 billion in fiscal 1990) 4% in each of the next five years. That was almost twice as much as the 2.6% yearly reduction proposed by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but not nearly so ambitious as the 10.4% whack for 1991 that the House Budget Committee suggested last week...
...programs, Williams would enact a state hiring freeze and sweeping budget cuts, including selling most of the 61 official airplanes and closing district offices. "You give this fella a whack at that budget, and I'll pay for it all and save some to boot," he says...
...1990s corporations will continue to be bought and sold. But the deals will reflect old-fashioned values, like the strategic compatibility of companies with one another, rather than the profits to be made from doing a deal. "The whole system got out of whack," says Myron Lieberman, a senior partner of the Chicago firm Altheimer & Gray, which has specialized in buyouts for 25 years. "We just threw out considerations of how we were going to make the new companies healthy...